Commuter Muzzling Leads to Rail Bosses’ Debate
New Haven Railroad ticket collector Ed McCarthy thrilled passengers with birdlike warbles to wake sleepers and calm crying babies. After a newspaper story drew letters of protest, the railroad's president George Alpert promised to review the matter while recognizing the value of lighthearted playfulness.
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Whistling Ed McCarthy
New Haven Railroad
Coger
New York
Ed McCarthy
George Alpert
Apert
Alpert
McCarthy
Mystery fund under scrutiny prompts questions in Ohio
Gov. DiSalle cites a Rhodes audit showing more than $400,000 spent from a liquidations fund lacking legal creation. The audit traces activity from 1946 to last year, with $28,000 in investments and only $2,628 left in checking, leaving legality and management of the fund in doubt.
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Columbus, Ohio
Michael J. DiSalle
DiSalle
James A ‘Rhodes
Crazed Man Shoots Sheriff in North Carolina
In Taylorsville North Carolina Sheriff Thomas Bebber 53 was shot in the back during a family disturbance at Jones Ellis home. Deputy Sheriff Joe James died from the earlier shot. Willard Ellis 38 barricaded himself upstairs and surrendered after neighbor intervention. Coroner to act as sheriff until successor named. Bebber survived by wife and five children.
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Joe James
Thomas E. Bebber
Jones Ellis
Ellis
Willard
R.Z. Matheson
Statesville
L.M. Warren
Bebber
Gas truck explosion kills eleven in Schuylkill Haven
A propane gas truck collision on Route 122 near Schuylkill Haven triggered a massive blast killing eleven and injuring fifteen. Spectators up to 300 feet away were among the injured as debris and a ball of fire ripped along the highway. Two school buses acted to evacuate 85 students.
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Schuylkill Haven
Philadelphia
Allentown
Here
Mountainville
Frank G. McCartney
Weather forecast and temperatures for Middletown
The forecast calls for cool conditions through Thursday with fair skies today and a high near 80. Tonight will be fair with a low around 58, and Thursday should be sunny and mild with a high about 85. Yesterday’s high reached 72 at 4 30 p m and the morning low was 54 at 5 30 a m with a discomfort index near 71 by afternoon.
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Middletown
Dysentery Claims 100 East Germans in Berlin Report
Berliner Zeitung reports 100 deaths from dysentery in East Germany linked to food imports from Red China. East German Communist press has not acknowledged the epidemic.
Space monkeys Baker and Able endure surgery after flight
Baker the one pound squirrel monkey recovered quickly after Navy doctors in Pensacola Florida removed two of the four electrodes implanted for the space flight. Able died during an anesthetic procedure in Kentucky, a preliminary autopsy found no injuries from the rocket ride.
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Tiny Squirrel Monkey
Baker
Donald E. Stullken
Pensacola
Fla
Washington
Able
Navy Scienti's
Cape Canaveral
Ft. Knox
Easy Touch Going Broke Signaled by Repeated Burglary
In Concord California Joe Molino's restaurant Easy Touch suffered six burglaries over 18 months totaling 2500 dollars. The seventh break in left the safe empty and a sign on top reading Please try some other place We can't stand much more of this.
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Concord
Calif
Joe Molino
Convicts Escape Iowa State Prison Through Window Break
Four long term inmates at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison held a guard and a cellblock captain at knife point and escaped by sawing two bars from an outside wall window. The quartet, led by Lloyd Woodson and Albert Boerger, climbed an eight foot fence after tying the guard, then disappeared. Police and neighboring states searched the area for Woodson, Boerger, Elon Girdler and Robert Jones as authorities described them as desperate men and punks with prior violent records.
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Fort Madison, Iowa
John Bennett
Lloyd Woodson
Quincy
Albert M. Boerger
Kansas City
Elon Girdler
Peoria
Robert Jones
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Lawrence W. Smith
Janes
Smith
Boerger
Larry H. Pickard
Woodson
Girdler
Pickard
Ilinois
Missouri
Fort Madiison
Bennett
Keokuk
Norman Juhl
Jones and
Chuckle About Evening Realities In Common Life
After a long day many people discover little changes in routine as hours wind down. The piece lightly reflects on quiet evenings and the small, ordinary moments that define domestic life.
Louisiana Governor Earl Long Committed for Mental Health Care
GALVESTON Texas AP Governor Earl Long of Louisiana was committed to a mental hospital for observation and treatment at his wife’s request. The 90 day order pauses political activity as Louisiana lawmakers face a tight end to the session and potential succession questions about the Long political machine.
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Galveston
Tex
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Long
U.S
Russell Long
D-La
Govrnor
Lether Frazer
Frazer
Ohio committee cites housing lack for Negroes as key civil rights issue
The Ohio Advisory Committee of President Eisenhower's Civil Rights Commission reports that decent safe and sanitary housing for Negroes is the most serious civil rights problem in Ohio Based on hearings in Cleveland Columbus and Cincinnati the panel urges federal action including an executive non discrimination order expanded urban renewal and Congress backed access to housing for all races The committee was led by Kathryn Mansell of Medina and includes members from Cleveland Columbus Toledo and Cincinnati.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
Washington
Eisenhower
Commission On Civil Rights
Kathryn Mansell
Medina
Congress
Ohio Committee
Morris Olson
Columbus
Rocco J. Russo
Cleveland
James S. Gibson
Toledo
Robert Westheimer
Cincinnati
C. Leroy Hacker
Springfield
Walter Rutensky
Parma
Morris Riger
U S To Attempt Rocket Recovery
Plans for recovery of the million dollar booster rockets for Project Mercury were disclosed by Space Recovery Systems Inc. Dr. Peter C. Goldmark said the system would save rocket shells in other space probes as they would otherwise burn up on re entry.
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Los Angeles
Space Recovery Systems Inc
Peter C. Goldmark
Queen Walks Past Murderers At Royal Garden Party
Nine convicts watched Queen Elizabeth II stroll past them in a garden party at Kew celebrating the Royal Botanic Gardens anniversary. With eleven other prisoners from Wormwood Scrubs and guards, the group stood in silence as the Queen passed in summer attire and approved their presence as subjects.
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London
Ufe
Wormwood Scrubs
Royal Botanic Gardens
Kew
Elizabeth
Nicaragua Faces Invasion Claims As Castro–Somoza Crisis Grows
In Managua President Somoza mobilizes forces to counter alleged Cuban backed invaders. Three schooners reportedly carry rebels and arms. at least 75 to 421 fighters said to have landed from Costa Rica and Cuba. Exiled leaders, including Pedro Joaquin Chamorro of La Prensa, are cited.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Luis Somoza
Cuba
Latin America
Foreign Ministry
Costa Rica
Try
Castro
Panama
United States
San Jose
Santo Tomas
Pedro Joaquin Chamorro
la Prensa
Basilio Fulmer title bout set for world middleweight
Carmen Basilio has accepted terms for a National Boxing Assn. world middleweight championship bout with Gene Fulmer, announced by Syracuse promoter Norman Rothschild. Other briefs note Gov. Earl Long in a clinic and Eisenhower denying progress at Geneva amid steel wage dispute rumors.
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New York
Carmen Basilio
Gene Fulmer
Norman Rothschild
Syracuse
N.Y
Washington
Eisenhower
Geneva
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